The hermeneutics of the image – sensual appearance of sense
The hermeneutics of the image – sensual appearance of sense

Summary/Abstract: The task of the hermeneutics of the image is to grasp the sensual emergence of meaning, to describe the conditions of its forming and the possibilities for its un¬derstanding. Gottfried Boehm suggests an answer to the question about sensual sense and formulates the most important aspects of the potential for creation of meaning. This potential is rooted in iconic difference, which manifests itself both through the liberating power of contrast and as a relation between the part and the whole – that is, a relation between transitions, or consecutiveness, and the simulta¬neity of the image. Sensuality, which organises and articulates the pictorial mean¬ing, remains unseen, even elusive – “empty” – though it drives the play of difference and oscillation.

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